Chapter 1 – Sunshine

Mika had been sat in the empty classroom for about thirty minutes now. It was her first day and she looked like the most eager idiot in the joint. It couldn't be helped, she knew that she would end up being the first one in and the last one out now, but it didn't mean she had to be happy about it. At least I managed to nab some breakfast, otherwise I would be no good whatsoever.

She had been half excited and half dreading this day for the whole of the summer. She had managed to get into U.A on recommendation and knew that she was going to have to prove herself when she arrived, seen as most of the other students would have fought it out at the entrance exam. Due to a few circumstances she wasn't able to attend, but she had a rather wonderful contact that vouched for her. Plus, she had already been read the blurb that due to her recommendation, if she was to let her performance in classes slip she would be demoted to the support classes, and that was not something that she wanted.

Sighing, she shifted uncomfortably in her uniform. The shirt she didn't mind at all, and she had opted for the short sleeved one, the long sleeve was much to stuffy. It was the necktie she wasn't to chuffed with, it was a indiscreet red with a gold pin in it, the red completely clashing against her emerald eyes. The blazers she knew could be tight and had therefore opted for one size bigger than she really need, which meant it wasn't snug and form fitting. She then had the standard dark green pleated school skirt that sat just above knee with knee length grey socks and chunky doc martins with emerald ribbons instead of laces.

She let her trademark look of utter indifference fall over her face as she sat in the third row from the door, three seats back. Her beaten leather bag sat at her feet as her head rested in her hands, bored half open eyes staring right through the black board up front. If I end up getting surrounded by complete morons, I will scream. She ran a hand through her long wild black curls, pushing them over her shoulder where they tumbled haphazardly down to the small of her back. Out of habit, her left hand moved to fiddle with the emerald ribbon tied around her right wrist, she kept it there for when she needed to concentrate. She would pull it from her wrist and tie her hair up with it.

Mika had thought that maybe her new home room teacher would turn up soon to welcome his brand-new class with open arms like most homeroom teachers did, but alas. She was sat on her own right up till the about ten minutes to homeroom.

She was jogged from her staring contest with the blackboard by the door sliding open, emerald eyes languidly flowing to the newcomer.

"Oh, Good Morning" A rather well-spoken tall boy stated, his glasses flashed to her immediately and she couldn't help but suck in a breath. Well hell, here we go…

"Mornin" She nodded and was about to resume her staring contest with the black board only to tense when the lad then started walking towards her.

"It's wonderful to meet you, and to think someone was more punctual than me… amazing" He spoke with such umph that it made Mika feel like she was meeting the most intense person in the world, and from who she had to deal with on a daily basis, that was saying something. He came to a stop by her desk and bowed. Damn, looks like I need to make at least 10% effort.

Mika stood from her chair and slowly bowed back to him.

"My name is Tenya Iida, it's a pleasure to meet you." He smiled.

"Mika Yamada, it's nice to meet you too" She replied politely, still not quite cracking a smile herself.

"How long have you been here, Yamada-san?"

"Uh, I've been here about 20 minutes already… I think" She thought, her half-lidded eyes wandering over to the clock above the black board trying to figure out how long it had been since she was dropped off right outside the door.

"Oh wow, such drive…" He beamed, chopping the air in front of him with one of his hands. Mika watched him with a brow furrowed.

"Yeh… drive" She muttered.

Just then the door slid open and a slow and steady stream of students then started entering the classroom. Iida immediately spun round and began introducing himself to everyone that came in. Iida-san, you are being far too eager for this time in the morning, relax. Most of the students that wandered through the door all greeted him with enthusiasm, and as Mika watched she could see the excitement in their eyes as they wandered in and found desks. There were some more obvious quirks that entered which caught her eye, and she couldn't help but stare a little when one really tall guy came striding in, hair grey with a bandana covering the lower half of his face, yet that was not what made him stand out. He had thee arms coming out of each shoulder socket. Awesome.

Others looked like her, unassuming when it came to quirks. Those were the types of people that she found the most intriguing, she loved trying to guess and figure out what their quirks were.

I wonder If there will be anyone like me in this class, it would be pretty nice to have someone to train with that understood what I'm working with. It had taken a hell of a long time to home in on my quirk due to the lack of information out there about it, and the fact that my parents were never forthcoming.

Mika was pulled from her reverie to find that most of the class had turned up now and were chatting with each other, making introductions and small talk. She merely sighed and sunk a little lower in her seat. She could tell that her bored looking eyes and black curls that had fallen slightly over her face made others feel she was a little too intimidating to approach. That was when the door slid open with a little more force than was necessary, and in strolled a sandy blond-haired lad with a face like thunder. Iida was in there straight away. Seriously dude, chill out.

"Oh nice to meet you I'm…"

"I don't care" The angry looking guy stated, holding up a hand and passing Iida-san with nothing more than that. A few of the other students all looked to him as he strolled across the room like he owned it and plopped down in the far row, second seat back. He immediately chucked his bag under the table and pulled his feet up onto the desk. Oh wow, now I would be lying to myself if I was to say you didn't look like the biggest dick around. Everything about him screamed pride and power, and as much as it was intimidating, it pissed her off.

"Bit rude" She found herself scoffing, bored eyes levelling him with a dirty look. The rest of the students kept quiet.

"What did you just say?" The kid turned to face Mika with fury in his eyes, a vein throbbing on his forehead.

"Oh, bless you, you must be hard of hearing… I said, 'bit rude'" Mika's voice was dripping in sarcasm as she replied slower and louder than before, finally leaning forward onto her desk and flashing him a wicked grin.

"The fuck is your problem, huh?" He growled back to her.

"You, you dipshit" Mika deadpanned, making him gawk at her before growling.

"Oh wow" "How manly" "They are scary" "Who are they?"

The students around them muttered to each other before tentatively stepping away from the all-out glaring competition that had flared up between the bored looking black-haired girl and the furious looking blond-haired boy.

To try and defuse the tension Iida came shuffling over and started to steer the conversation away from Mika. He tried to point out that the git shouldn't have his feet up on the desk. Stating that he needed to uphold the rules and regulations within the classroom to stop such blatant disrespect for the heroes that had sat at those desks before them. It was all a bit too much for Mika, so she turned back towards the front and sunk back into her seat. Way to make friends, Mika, you just put the rest of your class off you. Well at least I'm not putting everyone off as much as that git.

"Take your feet of off that desk now!" Iida stern words cut across her inner ramblings. Her bored eyes flowed over to where he was stood with his hands on his hips as he looked down at the blonde-haired git.

"Huuuuh?" He sneered back at him, obviously trying to wind Iida up.

"It's the first day and you are already disrespecting this academy by scuffing school property, you cretin" Iida rumbled. Which only made the grin on the blond kids face intensify and look more savage. Awh man, Tenya-san you don't know when to quit huh?

"You're kidding me, right?" He scoffed. "Did your middle school put a stick up your ass, or were you born with it?"

"Uhh, ah…" Iida look completely aghast and lost for words. Mika watched with bored eyes as he took a deep breath and held out his hand before him. "Let's start again, I'm Tenya Iida from the Private Somei Academy"

"Somei, huh?" The blond retaliated, instead of reciprocating the greeting. "So you must think you're better than me? I'm going to have fun tearing you a new one!" He smirked evilly as Iida took a step back with a gasp.

"You would threaten me? Your own classmate? Are you sure you're in the right place?" Iida looked horrified at the blond. At the insinuation of the blond not being right for the Hero course, his eyes darkened, and Mika could basically see where his line was drawn, and where Iida's foot now stood. He looked like he was about to bite his head off, when the door slid open again and both the blond and Iida spun round to see who it was.

"It's him!" Iida pointed, with such conviction.

Mika felt her head spinning to see who had entered the classroom and was hit with a wave of something she liked to call, her Achilles heel. For in the doorway stood a boy around her height with the most adorable look of shock on his face. He had mad dark green hair, that sat messily on top of his head, yet in a way that looked natural and cute. He had a bright yellow backpack on and was nervously gripping the straps. On his feet were a pair of bright read worn boots.

Now, even though Mika constantly put off an air of indifference and boredom, she was incredibly receptive to things she found cute, and right in that moment, the new comer blushing to his roots and looking nervous as hell was the cutest thing she had seen in a long while. She felt her cheeks heating up and her eyes widened a little, now sparkling at him. It was something that happened, she never came across anything cute in her childhood till she moved in with her Brother, and now when faced with cute things she just wanted to turn into a magpie and take them home.

"Ohhh Hi" He stuttered. Iida was on him in an instant, striding across the classroom to meet him.

"My name is Tenya Iida from the…"

"Uh Yeah… I know" The newcomer held up his hands and smiled politely to Iida. "I'm Izuku Midoriya, its super nice to meet you"

Adorable.

"Midoriya, you realised there was something more to the practical exam, didn't you?" Iida began, sounding incredibly serious. Everyone in the class that had arrived was now watching with rapt attention, not realising that there was something more to what they had been told. Izuku looked momentarily perplexed by the question. Mika could feel the urge to smoother Izuku in a hug building within her. Ugh, I Just want to hug the cuteness out of him.

"You must be very perceptive, and I completely misjudged you…" Iida started shaking his head and looking down to the ground in complete disgust with himself. Jeez, did he always take himself so seriously? "I admit, as a student you are far superior to me!"

"HEY, I recognise that messed up hair!" Came a girls excited voice from behind Izuku. Both lads turned to look at a girl a little shorted than Izuku, with short auburn hair and bright brown eyes that looked so adorable, Mika couldn't help but cough and put a hand to her mouth. They are both adorable, I can't even…

Mika turned away from them all then, not wanting to make a fool of herself. Instead she leaned over and started rummaging through her knackered leather bag and pulled out a pink fluffy tipped pen and a sparkly pink and green notebook.

"Uh, are they yours?" Came a nervous chuckle from the right of her. Her bored eyes slid up to meet red, as the boy next to her looked from her to her stationary.

"Yeh, who's else would they be?"

"Well, you know… they don't really match your… uh" He began to try and basically tell her she didn't suit her stationary, and all the while he was stuttering, she was raising an eyebrow at him.

"He's saying that's far too girly for a moody looking shit like you, curly" Came the blond boys voice from before, cutting across the red-haired ones stammering.

"Oh well, yeah, but I was going to put it better than that!" The red head winced.

"Yeh, that's true… they would suit you better, wouldn't they, sunshine?" Mika snorted, throwing her bored eyes over her shoulder at him, before turning back to the red-haired boy.

"Ha, she has you there… my names Eijiro Kirishima, nice to meet you" He bowed in his seat to her and offered her a spikey toothed smile.

"Mika Yamada, nice to meet you too" She replied, bowing back. All the while the blond kid was fuming and cursing her out behind them. He is going to get very annoying, very fast if all he does is chew people out all the time. Yet there's also no way I'm going to be able to keep my mouth shut against it. Sigh.

"If you've only come here to make friends, then you might as well pack up and leave now!" Came a stern voice from the doorway. Everyone's heads whipped back around and Izuku and the bubbly girl jumped as a skinny looking man with strained eyes and wiry black hair was laying across the floor zipped up in a yellow sleeping bag. Everyone watched in terrified fascination as he pulled the zip down far enough for him to free an arm and bring a squeezy carton of something to his mouth, as he sucked on it everyone shivered. "Welcome to the U.A Hero Course…"

"It took 8 seconds for you to all shut up, and that's not going to work… time is precious and actual students would understand that." He stated, as he wiggled and then stepped out of his sleeping bag. Revealing a dark outfit and a layered kind of scarf around his neck. This guy looks far too worn out to be here, but he must be the teacher, that's the only reason I can think of. Poor guy looks like he needs a warm meal, a shower and a long nap.

"Hello, my name is Shoto Aizawa, and I'm your homeroom teacher" He announced. Nailed it." Right, let's get to it… put these on and head outside!"

Everyone looked to each other confused as he started pulling out multiple Uniform gym kits from his sleeping bag before throwing them out to each and everyone. Mika grabbed hers from the air as it sailed towards her and held it up to take a look. Well at least it isn't too hideous, could be a hell of a lot worse.

BREAK

Once everyone was outside, they all huddled around in a group. Some of them were trying to figure out what was going on, where some others were catching up on learning everyone's names. Mika got cornered by Eijio Kirishima again and he basically did all her talking for her as she just bowed to everyone as he introduced her. So much easier when someone else does all the talking, I can never engage in small talk, it's completely wasted on me. Mika stuffed her hands in the training bottoms pockets and slouched a little. She wasn't one of these girls that had a curvy figure yet, and she knew slouching didn't make her look any better but she wasn't trying to impress anyone with her looks, so she just sighed and let Kirishima do all the talking.

"Right, so the system here at U.A is like no other, today I will conduct a test of your quirks" Aizawa Sensei said as he stepped out before them all.

"A test of our quirks?" Midoriya repeated, his eyes going wide a little.

Adorable.

"What about the entrance ceremony!... or the guidance sessions?" Ochaco Uraraka, the cute girl stood around with Midoriya piped up, her massive hazel eyes staring intently at Aizawa-sensei.

"No time to waste on that stuff if you want to become heroes. U.A is known for its 'freestyle' educational system, and that applies to us teachers as well" He stated, turning his back on them before glaring over his shoulder.

"Soft ball throwing, the standing long jump, the 50-metre dash, endurance running, grip strength, side to side stepping, upper body strength and seated toe touch… you all would have done these in middle school, Yes?" He asked, his bored eyes sweeping over them all. Mika caught his eyes for a second as two bored eyes glared at each other before he moved on. "Your standard no-quirks-allowed gym tests…"

"Hey, you two related?" Kirishima nudged Mika and pointed between herself and Aizawa-sensei. Mika frowned at him and shrugged her shoulders. What the hell?

"No, why would you think that?" She replied, miffed at him. He merely snorted at her and looked back to the front. A few of their classmates behind them chuckling too at the exchange.

"Bakugo, how far could you throw in middle school?" Aizawa-sensei asked.

"Sixty-seven meters." The angry blond answered, looking cocky.

"Great, now try it with your quirk, do whatever you need to. Just don't leave the circle"

"Awesome" Bakugo grinned wolfishly as he caught the ball thrown to him. He proceeded to stretch as he made his way to the circle, and Mika couldn't help but lift her eyes a little to get a good look. She wanted to see what kind of quirk he had, and whether his quirk had anything to do with his awful attitude. I hope it sucks and he gets a taste of his own medicine.

All of a sudden, there were a few crackles and flashes from the palm of his hands as he took a large step back and then launched himself into a strong pitch. Then just before the ball left his hands, it exploded into what looked like a grenade going off. The ball was sent absolutely hurtling out towards the horizon all to the ever so encouraging scream of…

"DIE!" Bakugo cried as he then panted, watching the ball land far far in the distance. Everyone else stood and looked on in awe as a rush of hot air blasted through them all. Mika felt her wild black curls fly out behind her as her wide eyes soaked it all in. Awh well shit, that was actually really impressive.

"It's important for us to know our limits… that's the first rational step to figuring out what kind of heroes you'll be" Aizawa-sensei explained, holding up his phone to flash them a screen that read. 7-5.2m. There was a pause where everyone was slowly letting their brains keep up with the task ahead of them. It wasn't every day, well at all really, that they were told they were allowed to use their quirks to improve their abilities in sports. Mika thought that it never ever happened like that in middle and first schools. Quirks were something that were regulated to support lessons with teachers, and more often than not they were one on ones and you weren't ever doing anything as exciting as this.

"WOAH" This is awesome!" Kirishima and a few of the others shouted with excitement, fist pumping the air.

"Hey, not too bad, Sunshine" Mika smirked at Bakugo when he strolled back up to join the group of them. He merely growled at her before flipping her his middle finger.

"Fuck off, curly" He bit, but there was a kind of grin to him, as if he was pumped after his throw and her comment couldn't have bought him down. It was a little adorable how pumped he was at his own result, so she let her smirk drop and just stuck her tongue out at him and he just kind of stared at her with a frown at the action. Ah it's too easy to rile him up.

"Awesome you say… you're hoping to become heroes after these three years, and you think it will all be fun and games?" Aizawa-sensei cut across everyone's chatter with such a gloom that a few of the class shivered. "Right. The one with the lowest score across all eight events will be judged hopeless… and will be expelled"

"WHAT" Every shouted at once.